Cheongdo Beomgok-ri Dolmen Group

Dolmens are the representative tombs of the Bronze Age, also known as goindol, and are generally understood to be the graves of a ruling class who held economic wealth or political power. Korean dolmens are divided into the table type, in which four support stones form a stone chamber topped with a huge, flat capstone, and the go-board (baduk) type, in which a stone chamber is built underground with small support stones set beneath the capstone. Those in Beomgok-ri, Hwayang-eup, Cheongdo County, North Gyeongsang Province, are go-board-type dolmens of the capstone variety, lacking support stones, and occur in groups. They are densely distributed along the Cheongdocheon Stream near Beomgok-ri, at intervals of about 50m, with 22 dolmens on the eastern side and 12 on the western side. These are thought to be the graves of people who settled along the Cheongdocheon Stream during the Bronze Age and formed a large village, and the large number of dolmens suggests that a sizeable settlement once stood there.

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Where it is

Region

Cheongdo, Gyeongbuk

Designation

Provincial Monument · 시도기념물